Moral Distress in Paediatric Palliative Care

Dr. Davies practiced as a Registered Nurse in pediatric oncology before graduating from McMaster University medical school. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Alberta. Following a one-year McEachern Fellowship, she returned to the University of Alberta and Stollery Children's Hospital, where she established the Pediatric Palliative Care Program. Dr. Davies received her MA (Health Care Ethics and Law) from the University of Manchester. She is past Chair of the Bioethics Committee, Canadian Pediatric Society. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and University of Ottawa, and a palliative care physician at CHEO and Roger Neilson House.

Dr. Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten is a Maritimer who completed her medical school in her hometown of Halifax at Dalhousie Medical School in 2012. She completed her Pediatric residency training in Ottawa in 2016. Following this, she completed a one-year fellowship registered with the University of Ottawa in Pediatric Palliative Care and Pain and Symptom Management. She now works in Pediatric Palliative Care at CHEO and Roger Neilson House as a general pediatrician.